Sea Ceptor Systems Verification Engineer

SEA LTD; Overstone; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defence organisation is seeking a Systems Verification Engineer to join their Sea Ceptor Weapon Systems team in the UK. This role involves delivering verification activities for multiple customers and managing tasks to ensure timely completion. The position offers a salary of up to £57,000, hybrid working arrangements, and various company perks including bonuses and enhanced parental leave. Ideal candidates should have experience in formal verification processes and be able to work effectively in a team environment.

Benefits

Company bonus: Up to £2,500

Pension contribution up to 14%

Opportunity for paid overtime

Up to 15 additional leave days

Enhanced parental leave options

Qualifications

• Experience in formal verification and certification processes is essential.
• Ability to work flexibly across various programmes with changing priorities.
• Strong interpersonal skills are required for team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Support the review of subsystem evidence for systems activities.
• Maintain and report on certification and modification registers.
• Manage verification and validation activities timely and effectively.

Skills

Systems Engineering lifecycle

Formal verification

Team player

Proactive work ethic

DOORS Knowledge

Job description

Sea Ceptor Systems Verification Engineer

Location: Watford, Northamptonshire, UK NN6 7

Appointment date/posted: 2025-12-16T17:42:06

Security: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship. Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

Apply by: 2026-01-13T17:42:06

Job Description

The Sea Ceptor Weapon Systems team is expanding and seeks a Systems Engineer to deliver verification activity to support multiple customers.

Salary and Working Arrangements

• Salary: Up to £57,000 Depending on Experience
• Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2-3 days per week on-site due to workload classification

What we can offer you

• Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
• Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave; enhancements available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments

The Opportunity

Sea Ceptor is a very successful, growing, innovative, high profile maritime air defence system that has secured multiple UK and export contracts. Pivotal to these roles is enabling the delivery of Sea Ceptor to multiple customers concurrently, whilst managing adaptations for an increasing number of export customers.

This role is within the Weapon Systems Design & Verification team, delivering Verification activities to support multiple customers (both export and domestic) within Sea Ceptor. This will consist of task planning, budgeting and management to ensure the activities are completed on time, cost and quality.

Responsibilities may include

• Support to, and the review of, Subsystem evidence and outputs to enable Systems activities.
• Non‑compliance generation, maintenance and reporting.
• Certification and Modification Register maintenance and reporting.
• Task management of Verification and Validation Activities.
• Support to the generation of documentation (e.g. Trials Requirement Documents and Product Trials Clearance Certificates) and closure of Reviews (e.g. Regression Test Panels) to enable trials and evidence collation to occur.
• Support to System level compliance evidence generation and certification, including generation of System Verification documentation e.g. Compliance Matrices and Certificates of Design.

What we're looking for

• An appreciation of the Systems Engineering lifecycle, specifically with proven experience in formal verification and certification processes.
• A keen delivery focus, enabled by an ability to work proactively and flexibly across a number of variant programmes for which relative priorities can change quickly.
• An ability to respond quickly when programme priorities change.
• An effective team player with strong interpersonal and influencing skills, essential to working as part of a multi-disciplinary team and in building cohesion in the relationships between the Systems team and various interfacing teams.
• Knowledge in the use of DOORS is required.

What's in it for you?

This role within Sea Ceptor provides an excellent opportunity to experience differing verification approaches across multiple export and domestic programmes. The role will offer development opportunities in people and stakeholder management, task management, generation of verification technical documentation, among many others.

Join a great team! You will be joining a highly motivated team with the opportunity to contribute across multiple programmes, with a focus on effective Verification and Validation delivery across a number of concurrent projects. There will be opportunities for further development and growth for those with the aptitude and demonstrated ability.

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